Hi, Can anybody give the command to pause the process for a specified amount of time. I got this problem becasue in my batch script. My program tries to install a software. But when the installation termiates after a fraction of min. Then i tried with pause command. then the istallation is going fine. As i know the installation completes by seeing the files i can press any key to close the CMD window. But the users dont know about installation files. If i gave the program using "pause" they may close the CMD window as soon as the message "press any key to continue...". I dont want to do like that.. So, please can anybody tell the command to pause the process for specified amount of time... Thanks in advance, Shyam. Shyam Kumar

ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 10000 > nul =========================== the time to wait is the 10000, time in milliseconds, so this waits 10 seconds. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi Mechanix2Go, The command you gave is not working in my code. Same thing happenening. my installation is aborting in between as usual. I am giving u the full code what i made. @echo off Title OA or PVLite or PVThick Installation if not defined JAVA_HOME set /p JAVA_HOME=Please enter JAVA_HOME: set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH% set /p Component=Please enter Viz component to install[OA/LITE/THICK] set /p Build=Please enter the build to install if "%Component%"=="OA" set loc=\\i2851\Viz_CD_Images\OA\X-10\%Build%\adapters_win.01 if "%Component%"=="LITE" set loc=\\i2851\Viz_CD_Images\PView\X10\%Build%\pviewrun.01 if "%Component%"=="THICK" set loc=\\i2851\Viz_CD_Images\PView\X10\%Build%\productview.01 set /p installer=Please enter the path to installer properties file of "%Component%": for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%i in ('findstr /C:"USER_INSTALL_DIR=" "%installer%"') do set install_loc=%%i Set install_loc=%install_loc:\:=:% Set install_loc=%install_loc:\\=\% pushd "%loc%" if "%Component%"=="THICK" ( echo %installer% echo Installing ProductView ............ start /wait setup -f %installer% -i silent pause goto EOF ) if "%Component%"=="OA" ( echo %installer% rmdir /s /q "%install_loc%" echo Installing OA............ start /wait setup -f %installer% -i silent ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 300000 > null goto EOF ) if "%Component%"=="LITE" ( echo %installer% echo Installing ProductView Lite............ start /wait setup -f %installer% -i silent pause goto EOF ) :EOF Output of batch file: Please enter JAVA_HOME:d:\j2sdk1.4.2_06 Please enter Viz component to install[OA/LITE/THICK]OA Please enter the build to install101 Please enter the path to installer properties file of "OA":c:\vizadapters-instal ler.properties c:\vizadapters-installer.properties Installing OA............ After showing "Insatalling OA.."... it is closing in between of the installation.... Thanks in Advance, Shyam. Shyam Kumar

By a quick watch I suppose your code never executes the ping command given by M2 as it abends while running setup. Why do you code Start /wait setup as its effects is the same of the simple setup...? A cause may be the Set Path statement at the beginning as I experienced the impossibility of modifing the native Path system variable via a batch script.

It will take me a while to figure out what's going on in all that ECHOing and prompting. One thing I notice is that you don't need to indicate where EOF is with :EOF because it is 'built in'. But, strangely, you do need to code: goto :eof ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Yes M2. wat you said regarding :EOF is correct.. actually i tried with out that... as it is not working i tried with different ways.. Shyam Kumar